A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Tag: Artificial Intelligence
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Universal Paperclips is a browser game in which you play an AI tasked with making paperclips. And it’s rather brilliant. It starts off innocently enough, with you as the AI clicking buttons to make paperclips one at a time, while making sure your manufacturing levels match demand. Then you learn how to automate the process,…
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This week on Spiffing Reads, we look into a spooky AI future – and a forgotten past of suicidal game disks. The Video Game Horror Of Westworld (Kotaku UK) The new HBO version of Westworld looks rather excellent. I was a big fan of the original film, and it seems like they’ve done a great…
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I still distinctly remember the hours that followed walking out of the cinema after seeing “Moon”. Still struggling to come to terms with the notion of ‘created memories’, while walking along the iconic Chapel Street the friend I caught the film with started to entertain the notion of teleportation, referring to an article he’d read…
A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME 